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April 27, 2025

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Texas PUC Approves 765-kV Transmission Option for Permian Basin
The Texas Public Utility Commission approved a plan that allows ERCOT to authorize the region’s first extra-high-voltage transmission lines and meet the petroleum-rich Permian Basin’s rapidly growing power needs. 
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Firm Fuel Proposal Continues to Confuse NYISO Stakeholders
NYISO returned to the Installed Capacity Working Group with more modifications to the tariff language and general structure of its firm fuel capacity accreditation proposal, but stakeholders still appear to be skeptical of it.
NextEra Energy Resources
NextEra Energy Continues to Rack up Renewables Deals
NextEra Energy posted solid first-quarter financials and said its renewables portfolio continued to grow even as President Trump began implementing pro-fossil fuel policies.
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GCPA Hears Different Tales on Texas Load Growth from 2 CEOs
Two power industry CEOs at the Gulf Coast Power Association’s spring conference offered two different takes on ERCOT load growth over the rest of the decade — and how the sector should deal with a potential doubling of peak demand by 2031.
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CAISO Pauses Study of New Market Run Proposal for Gas Resources

CAISO sidelined a proposal to provide an additional market run for gas resources due to a lack of information on the subject and a need for operational experience with the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

Lone Star Industrial Park
2 More Projects Fall out of TEF Loan Program
The troubled Texas Energy Fund has lost two more projects from its original list of applicants, raising questions about its ability to quickly add 10 GW of gas-fired dispatchable resources to the ERCOT grid.
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Data Center Campus with up to 4.5 GW of Gas Generation Planned for Pa.
A data center campus planned in western Pennsylvania would include up to 4.5 GW of on-site gas-fired generation and be the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., a group of developers announced.
Energy Innovation
Industry Anxiety over Grid Reliability Overblown, Panel Says
The current debate in the U.S. electricity sector pitting efforts to increase renewables against the need for grid reliability in the face of growing demand could be unnecessary and counterproductive, according to one expert.
MISO
MISO Feb. Real-time Prices Nearly Double from 2024
MISO’s real-time energy prices in February 2025 nearly doubled from a year earlier as the footprint saw higher load and gas prices.
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New England Officials Discuss Tx Oversight and Rising Energy Costs
State energy officials emphasized the need for increased oversight for transmission investments at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.

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